Poets’ Corner

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burial place memorial site tourist attraction

Poets’ Corner is the famed area of Westminster Abbey in London where many of Britain’s most celebrated poets, writers, and playwrights are commemorated and buried.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Poets' Corner 3
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey 1
Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf burial place ⓘ
memorial site ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ
country United Kingdom ⓘ
dedicatedTo playwrights ⓘ
poets ⓘ
writers ⓘ
famousFor burials of notable poets and writers ⓘ
commemorating British literary figures ⓘ
hasType section of a church ⓘ
heritageDesignation part of a Grade I listed building ⓘ
inception 14th century (as a burial place for poets) ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
locatedIn England ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form: London

United Kingdom ⓘ
Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster ⓘ
surface form: Westminster Abbey
namedAfter its association with poets ⓘ
notableBurial Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ
surface form: Alfred Tennyson

Charles Dickens ⓘ
Edmund Spenser ⓘ
Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ
Robert Browning ⓘ
Rudyard Kipling ⓘ
Samuel Johnson ⓘ
Thomas Hardy ⓘ
notableMemorial Dylan Thomas ⓘ
George Eliot ⓘ
Gerard Manley Hopkins ⓘ
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ
Jane Austen ⓘ
John Keats ⓘ
John Milton ⓘ
Lord Byron ⓘ
Oscar Wilde ⓘ
Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ
Robert Burns ⓘ
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ
T. S. Eliot ⓘ
Thomas Gray ⓘ
T. S. Eliot ⓘ
surface form: Thomas Stearns Eliot

W. H. Auden ⓘ
William Shakespeare ⓘ
William Wordsworth ⓘ
Brontë ⓘ
surface form: the Brontë sisters
partOf Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster ⓘ
surface form: Westminster Abbey
religiousAffiliation Church of England ⓘ
visitorAttraction yes ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Charles Dickens → burialPlace → Poets’ Corner ⓘ
this entity surface form: Poets' Corner
Geoffrey Chaucer → burialPlace → Poets’ Corner ⓘ
Rudyard Kipling → burialPlace → Poets’ Corner ⓘ
this entity surface form: Poets' Corner
Thomas Hardy → burialPlace → Poets’ Corner ⓘ
this entity surface form: Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
Alfred, Lord Tennyson → burialPlaceSection → Poets’ Corner ⓘ
this entity surface form: Poets' Corner
George Frideric Handel → honouredIn → Poets’ Corner ⓘ
this entity surface form: Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey